The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.
BEN FOLDSI’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
More Ben Folds Quotes
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I’m aware that I’m very fringe, and it’s nice that way.
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Rock and roll is – and should be – a kid’s place.
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The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
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The piano is just a different animal. It’s expensive, it’s big, it’s heavy, and it doesn’t fit in the mix easily.
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You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.
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The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
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Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I know that’s a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
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The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music.
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I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it’s usually because you’re just not coming to grips with something.
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I’ve got Joni Mitchell records, and they’re great, and I couldn’t possibly be that good.
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I don’t leave my neighborhood. I don’t go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block… so I don’t do much driving…
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Off the coast and I’m headed nowhere
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Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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I’m definitely an anomaly, but I’m making things. They’re selling, say, martinis, and I’m kind of making vintage Riesling.
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Notes don’t make music until you learn to insert silence between them.
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